Point controls of corridors while working from an active reference drawing that doesn't use feature definitions

Currently I am working in ORD 10.09.00.91, and we have a large project that was created in SS2 with GEOPAK. The project is still being revised but the client wants a 3D model. I built one in SS4 previously and point controls worked with the design line strings perfectly, any changes in the referenced SS2 drawing trickled up to the corridor. Now I have to create a new model in ORD and I keep getting "invalid plan element - element has no name" error. Creating a new design drawing and just importing changes so that the lines have feature definitions is impractical since it would be an almost daily reworking. How do I get the point controls to recognize line strings and chains again?